Release Notes

The purpose of this section is to provide a description of a Validate Tool release including any impact that the new or modified capabilities will have on the Discipline Nodes or the PDS user community. If viewing the web-based version of this document, a somewhat itemized list of changes for each release can be found on the Release Changes page.

Release 0.3.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.2.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. This release includes the latest set of schemas generated from the PDS4 data model.

Release 0.2.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.1.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards and the system components to date. This release includes the latest set of schemas generated from the PDS4 data model.

Release 0.1.0

This release of the Validate Tool is a component of the integrated release 1.0.0 of the PDS 2010 System. This release is intended as a prototype release in support of the assessment of the PDS4 standards. The new or modified capabilities for this release are as follows:

• Support for validating a product label or set of product labels against a specified XML Schema. Validation capabilities provided by the Core Library.
• Support for validating against a set of packaged schemas, including determination of the appropriate schema based on the type of product label. Internal set of XML Schemas provided by the Core Library.
• Support for command-line input including specifying files or directories for validation target, specifying a regular expression for validation target, turn off directory recursion, specifying schemas for validation and specifying a file for the validation report.

The liens for this release are as follows:

• Need support for specifying a bundle or collection product and have the tool validate the products that are referenced by those products.